Iran is studying a rough draft of a deal to revive a 2015 nuclear agreement with major powers formed during talks in Vienna, the country’s foreign minister said on Saturday.
Parties to the deal have said that the talks on bringing the United States and Iran back into the agreement after then President Donald Trump's 2018 walkout have reached a critical stage.
Iran's chief negotiator Ali Bagheri has been back in Tehran for consultations.
Iran is "seriously reviewing (the) draft of the agreement," Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Twitter, adding he had spoken over phone with the European Union's top diplomat Josep Borrel.
The EU has been acting as an intermediary between Iranian negotiators and a US delegation in the absence of US participation in direct talks between Tehran and the remaining parties to the 2015 agreement. Iran has not agreed to a face-to-face meeting with the United States.
We are "all trying to reach a good deal," Amir-Abdollahian added. "Our red lines are made clear to western parties. Ready to immediately conclude a good deal, should they show real will."
